The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-03-31
Generalities.

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The Crown Princess of Portugal has given
birth to a son.
A remarkable case of cure by faith is. report
ell from Columbus, Ohio.
The Texas cattle drive, now commencing,
promises to be fully as large as usual.
The Canadian government has abandoned the
Hudson Bay route for expectation to Europe.
The Dakota flood is subsiding and through
traffic on the Northern Pacific has been RESUME
ed.
The father of Gen. Sickles left $4,000, 900.
Each of the daughters receives $50,OO0 in
cash.
Henry Ward Bceclcr's library, pictures and
bric-a-brac are to be sold ut auction next
| autumn.
The ''poor white trash" of Kentucky convict
ed of vagrancy arc sold at auction for limited
| periods.
1t is reported that Emperor William has de-
clared emphatically that there will be no war
SO long as he lives.
One of Rhode Islands famous spoilers, the
Barnes boys, has been brought from Canada,
charged with perjury.
Brooklyn is to open a popular subscription,
to raise funds for a statue to the memory of
Henry Ward Beecher.
| A movement has been started to en.low Il
| prOfcssorship at Amherst College in memory
of Henry Ward Beechcr.
An explosion by which seventy miners were
killed occurred last week in the Bull colliery
ut Sydney, New South Wales.
An old Mexican veteran in South Carolina
felt the disappointment regarding his pension
N SaV nrnIv fHHf bo hny Il h
The report that the Northern Cheyennes in
| Montana were starving is contradictcd by the
| Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
The Dominion government has added yet an
| other schooner, by charter, to their fleet of
cruisers against Yankee fishermen.
narrow gauge railroad has been completed
to the summit of Lookout Mountain, the scene
| of Hooker's fight above the clouds.
| The largest farm in the world is in Louisi-
ana. 1t comprises 1 100000 acres and has
navigable water front of 800 miles.
| A statue by W. w. Story of Francis Scott
| Key, the author of the ''Star Spanglcd BAN
| ner," is to be erected ut San Francisco.
| 1t is stated that the widow of President Polk
keeps all her husbands private effects in his
| Old Office at Nashville, quite undistgrbed.
| bill prohibiting discrimination against
| cOlOred persons by life insurance companies
has been passed by the Connecticut Senate.
Advices from stock growing centres of the
Southwest are to the effect that decided rcvi-
| val in the cattle business has commenced
The proposition to submit to a vote of the
| people Il prohibition amendment to the consti-
| tuition was defeated in the Illinois Legislature.
| A negro who had been sentenced to twenty
| years Imprisonment for nlailsaughter, in Ken
| lucky, was taken out by mob and hanged to
a tree.
| Peelc, lIubbcll 4 Co., of Manila, probably
| the largest sugar concern in the Philippines,
have failed. A Boston firm are their agents in
| this country.
| The acting secretary of the treasury has is
sued the 14Sth call for the redemption of bonds
The call is for $40 900 of the three per cent
| loan of 1882.
| Several of the German and Scandinavian
steamship lines have raised their stecrage
! rates in anticipation of big business the COM
| ing summer.
| David Clark, of Stratford, Conn.,, has pre-
| scntcd his farm of los acres to the Hartford
Hospital and Old Peoples Home as Il mon,l-
| ment to his son.
The great ice gorge in the Missouri river near
Bismarck, Dakota, broke March 18th and swept
| by the Hood was over $3O, 900.
| The Canadian fishermen are trying to buy
enough clam bait in Maine to supply them the
entire fishing season, so that retaliation, if
decided on, will not harm them in this particu-
| lar.
| The price list agreed on about year ago be-
tween the Brockton shoe manufacturers and
| the lastcrs expires April /. 1t is expected that
the factories will run on just as they have been
doing.
AT the Yale commencement this year will be
celebrated the sem-ccntcnnial anniversary of
| the famous class of 1887. and Senator Evarts
| and Chief-Justice Waite are expected to be
| present.
| That several large railroad consultations
will grow out of the enforcement of the Inter-
| state Commerce law and that the constitutions
ality Of the law will be tested are rumors of
| the day.
| 1t is supposed that De.airf, alias Jabolinski,
| the famous Nihlllst leader, who was sent to
Siberia about three years ago and escaped, was
at the head of the recent attempt Oh the life of
| the Gar
Dispatches from Manitoba say that the cattle
| losses from severe weather on the ranges west
of there are estimated at 80 per cent. In some
| districts, notably Cypress Hills, the loss is so
per cent.
The Baptists of the world number 3, a. .s::,3
of church members. "a ,2SS churches and %, ,SS5
| ministers. Of these the members in America
include 2,G13,594, the churches y, $50 and the
ministers 16, 80.
A New Yorker who lost his eye by Il foul
| ball while witnessing game in that city last
June cannot recover damages which he sued
| for. The spectator must take his chances ut Il
game of base ball.
DIR. Andrew Jackson Grant, the matrimonial
adventurcr, who married Cambridge, Mass,
lady last September and desert ted her soon aft
| er, has been arrested on the charge of robbin.
| the lady of valuables.
W. f. Lawton, of the firm of Lawton Broth
| crs, New York dealers in phosphates, has dis
| appeared. 1t is charged that he absconded to
defraud his creditors. His liabilities are pac-
| ed at a million of dollars.
The fishermen of Nova Scotia and Newfountl-
| land who have been in the habit of supplying
| American fishing vessels with bait are unhappy
over the prospect of being deprived of their
| chief occupation again next summer.
The Richmond Hotel and st. James Hall
| at Buffalo were burned March 18th. 1t is
| believed that three persons were unable to
escape and perished in the flames, while large
number were injured. The pecuniary loss is
| placed at $4OG 900.
| Temperance advocates are tlocking to Michi-
gan, to take part in the Prohbitory Constitu-
| tional amendment campaign, which will close
| on April 4. Among the latest and ablest to
] join the thrOng is Mrs. j. +. Foster, of Iowa,
| who has lately been speaking in the Eastern
| and Middle States.
| Some sections of the Interstate Commerce
bill are SO vaguely wordcd that nobody could
| tell what they mean. 1t has been discovered
that the Agricultural Experimental Station bill,
although purpOrting to make an appropriation,